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They were called out 25 times for cockroaches and had 41 reports of bedbugs, whilst Liverpool had no reports of their of those insects.

In Liverpool, however, there did appear to be a particular problem with rats - with a total of 8,408 separate call-outs in 2015/6, and a further 3,988 calls from residents to deal with mice.

Every council included figures on population, total pest call-outs last year, budget allocation for pest control, average costs and then the figures for how many call-outs there were for specific type of pests.

Below we have listed all the key data for Sefton, Liverpool and Wirral: